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NOT the best fairy cake recipe ever. My sister made these, and consequently she was the only one eating them. They were burnt around the edges (even though she put them in for less time than essential) and went stale in about a day. I've seen a better batch before definitely.

Just made these with my 18 month old - used stork instead of butter and vanilla bean paste instead of extract but otherwise followed the recipe to the letter. I used a handmixer which certainly speeded things up. The mixture was enough for 14 buns (traditional fairy cake rather than muffin tin size).
I had planned to turn half into butterfly cakes but they didn't rise as much as expected (might add baking powder next time) so instead we iced them all with a glaze made from part icing sugar and a drop of either orange squash or lemon juice for flavour. I had bought a tube of decorations which little one had a ball sticking on top, though by the end most were going in his mouth rather than onto the cakes.
Will definitely make these again!

These cakes came out fantastic. They were easy to make. Really light and fluffy. When mixing the flour into the sugar and butter mix it was a bit flaky and I thought i went wrong somewhere but once I added the egg and mixed it in it was great. I would advise using a handheld electric mixer it took no time at all.

Followed this recipe to the letter with big eggs and sustituted the vinilla for milk. these were the best i'd made using internet recipes.I cut these in half when cooled, added some fresh whipped cream and layered chocolate spread on top. I also added chocholate ice-cream on the side

These were really quick and easy to make.
Mine didn't rise as much as I had expected. I might add a bit of baking powder in the future.
I also used half the quantities for the icing - and even then I had some left over!

I made these with my 3year old great nephew and he had a ball making them ( with a little help from me ) took no time at all and he loved putting the icing on top, great recipe , and cakes were gone in no time at all

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